Most weddings are built around one day.

Guests travel from different parts of the country, family and friends finally come together, the couple spend months planning every detail — and then the whole thing seems to pass in a blur.

Longlands Devon offers something different.

A private estate wedding reception venue in North Devon where your celebration becomes a full weekend together. Time to arrive slowly, settle in, celebrate properly, and enjoy the people who matter most without trying to squeeze everything into a few short hours.

This is not a traditional hotel wedding venue or formal function room.

Longlands is a private nature-led estate for relaxed wedding receptions, intimate wedding celebrations and destination-style wedding weekends with your closest family and friends.

When you book Longlands Devon for your wedding reception, the entire estate is yours exclusively.

No other guests. No shared spaces. No hotel style atmosphere. No rushing between venues.

Just your group, your accommodation, your celebration, and 18 acres of private North Devon countryside to enjoy together.

Longlands works especially well for couples looking for an exclusive use wedding reception venue in Devon with accommodation included. It is ideal for couples who want something more personal, relaxed and experience-led than a conventional one-day wedding venue.

Guests stay together across Lakeview Farmhouse and five Safari Lodge Treehouses, creating a private luxury estate setting where your closest people can celebrate, stay, relax, extend the celebration, and turn the wedding into a memorable private estate weekend.

Our main wedding reception package is designed as a 3-night weekend stay from Friday to Monday.

Friday — Arrival Evening
Guests check in from 4pm, settle into the estate, unpack, explore, and begin the weekend slowly.

Many groups choose a relaxed Friday evening with a wood-fired pizza truck, drinks by the lake, time around the firepit, and an early night before the main celebration.

Saturday — Main Wedding Reception
Saturday is your main wedding reception day. A private estate setting gives you the freedom to shape the atmosphere, pace and experience in a way that feels personal to you.

Sunday — The Day Most Weddings Miss
Sunday is the part many couples never get with a traditional wedding.

A slower day to wake up on the estate, have breakfast together, visit a nearby beach, go out locally for Sunday lunch, or gather again for a relaxed BBQ by the lake.

It gives your guests one final day to catch up, unwind, and enjoy the people who made the effort to be there.

Monday — Relaxed Departure
Check-out is 10am on Monday, after a full weekend together.

Not a rushed one-day event.
Not a few hours in a function room.
A complete wedding weekend with the people who matter most.

Accommodation is part of the package at Longlands Devon. Guests can enjoy both Lakeview Farmhouse (sleeps 20) and five Safari Lodge Treehouses (sleep 30), sleeping up to 50 guests in total across one private estate.

This makes Longlands especially well suited to couples searching for a wedding venue with accommodation in Devon, where family and friends can come together while still having their own space.

Once guests have parked the car and checked in, they can settle into the estate for the weekend. At the end of the evening, there is no waiting around for taxis or travelling back to separate accommodation — just a short stroll back to the Farmhouse or Safari Lodge Treehouses, with everyone still together on the estate beneath Devon's dark skies.

Longlands is not about rushing through a formal schedule, the experience feels more like a private celebration holiday — with children exploring, guests reconnecting, and everyone together.

Set within the North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Exmoor National Park Dark Sky Reserve, Longlands gives your wedding weekend a rare sense of place.

Across the estate, guests can enjoy:
* Lakeside BBQ and firepit gatherings
* Wild swimming in the private lake and rowboat adventures
* Sunset and starlight hot tub experiences
* Stargazing beneath the Exmoor dark skies
* Woodland walks and nature trails

For couples who want their wedding reception to feel personal, generous and relaxed, Longlands creates the feeling of a private celebration holiday in a place your guests will remember.

Our main wedding reception package is a 3-night weekend stay from Friday to Monday and includes:

* Exclusive use of Longlands Devon private estate
* Accommodation for up to 50 guests
* Friday 4pm check-in to Monday 10am check-out

2026 & 2027 pricing = £9,750 including VAT. Bank holiday weekends and school holiday dates may be priced slightly higher.

Based on full occupancy, this works out from around £65 per person, per night — exceptional value for exclusive private estate hire with accommodation included.

We also offer 2-night midweek wedding reception stays on:

Monday & Tuesday
or
Wednesday & Thursday

2026 & 2027 pricing = £6,000 including VAT. Bank holiday weekends and school holiday dates may be priced slightly higher.

Midweek wedding reception stays can work especially well for smaller, more intimate wedding celebrations, couples with flexible ceremony dates, or those wanting the private estate experience at a lower overall cost than a peak weekend.

Longlands is self-catering, but we can recommend excellent local suppliers for wood-fired pizza, hog roasts, private chefs, lakeside BBQ catering, locally sourced BBQ packs and breakfast hampers.

We can also recommend drinks suppliers for wine, beer, champagne and celebration drinks, helping couples create the atmosphere they want without needing a traditional hotel-style wedding package.

A popular weekend rhythm is:
* Friday: relaxed pizza truck arrival evening
* Saturday: main wedding reception meal, such as hog roast, private chef or own catering
* Sunday: local Sunday lunch or lakeside BBQ

Longlands Devon is best suited to relaxed, intimate wedding receptions and private celebration weekends, up to 50 guests.

We are not a licensed wedding ceremony venue, so couples usually hold their legal ceremony separately and then come to Longlands for the wedding reception and celebration weekend.

Longlands is also not a high-energy party venue. We do not allow marquees, DJs, bands, or amplified outdoor music.

The estate is designed for couples who value privacy, nature, meaningful time with family and friends, and a slower, more memorable way to celebrate.

If you are looking for a wedding reception venue in Devon that gives you more than just a few hours together, Longlands offers something rare.

A private estate wedding weekend with accommodation for up to 50 guests, set within one of North Devon’s most beautiful natural landscapes.

Whether you are planning an intimate wedding reception in North Devon, a destination-style wedding weekend, or a private estate celebration after a ceremony elsewhere, Longlands gives you time, privacy and place — the things a one-day wedding often cannot.

A wedding weekend, not just a wedding day.